Comment by jerlam

France passed a law back in 2020 to require new washing machines to have a microplastics filter by 2025:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-00137...

It has also begun to subsidize the clothing repair industry:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/business/france-shoe-clothing...